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Month: October 2016

10 Things Canadians Say That Americans Don’t Understand While Canadians and Americans can sound very much alike (depending which province you are from), there are certain terms that pop up only in Canadian culture that would sound completely foreign to an American’s ears. This goes beyond “eh” and “toque,” with many words used in daily…

What Does a Closed Captioner Do? Article sourced with permission from – Stenofabulous — You’re a What? What is That? I’ve been a captioner for close to a year now. When I meet people, and they ask me what I do for a living, trying to explain my job to them can be really hard, people…

Debate Night: Relaying the Message with Closed Captioning One of the hardest forms of stenography comes in the form of live television captioning. It is a field reserved for the best of the best… those who can achieve a consistent and astronomically high accuracy rate, have a knack for remembering minute details from the…

photo credit: Edmonton Journal Meet North America’s Fastest Stenographer 280 words per minute, Jeffrey Weigl wins top speed award at the 2016 NCRA Convention. At the beginning of September, word was released and the story spread wide across Canada about the fastest hands in North America. The champion of the NCRA annual speed…